Sick in the Head
All the quotes I saved from this book.
“People ask me about improv, and I tell them improv is just the final icing. You need a structure. It’s like, if you’re going to commit suicide, you need the building to jump out of.”
Albert Brooks
“But you learn more from fucking up than you do from success, unfortunately. And failure, if you don’t let it defeat you, is what fuels your future success.”
Chris Rock
“You allow the actor to be, as opposed to do. People are fascinating , they don’t really need to do much.”
Gary Shandling
“It’s Lena’s show, and we’re all there to help her. Some weeks she may love our ideas, she may love our whole script. Other weeks, we’re just trying to feed her so she gets excited and goes off and writes a script without us.”
Judd Apatow
“I feel comfortable in the process, but when it’s over, I don’t actually get — I enjoying being in the middle, working toward something, because there’s a feeling of safety. I feel like I’m doing something.
Judd Apatow
“Every day there’s a surprise, something you didn’t expect. And that’s the joy of making movies.”
Mike Nicols (this applies well to advertising)
“If you always want less, in words as well as things, you’ll do well as a writer.”
Jerry Seinfeld
“If I go into the morning meeting and I have clarity, and I can articulate that clarity, everybody’s day is easier. If that doesn’t happen, it’s my fault.”
Jon Stewart
“Especially cancer. I’ve always found cancer an amusing weapon — I’ve always found, ah, anything that creates tension, tension and release, and cancer creates major tension.”
Michael O’Donoghue
“If somebody’s going to give me money to make a movie, I’m going to be very collaborative with them and listen to their concerns, but it’s also my job to protect the idea of the film because, without that, we’re all lost.”
Spike Jonze
“When I finished Her, I thought, Okay, I’ve done everything I can to give this as much love as I could give it and now it’s gonna go off and be what it’s gonna be. If it gets moved I’ll be proud and if gets hated it’ll hurt, but I also know that what I have done with my friends and collaborators will never change.”
Spike Jonze
“You have to see the world differently than the audience does.” Like you have to put yourself in a state where you see the world differently than the audience does, because then you will surprise them with your choices.
Stephen Colbert